Ken Urker’s Sister Says Gypsy Rose Blanchard Humiliated Him

Ken Urker’s sister has launched a furious attack on his former fiancée, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard, after he was found dead at his Louisiana home on his 34th birthday.

Urker and Blanchard began their relationship in 2017, while Blanchard was serving a seven-year prison sentence for her role in the murder of her abusive mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard.

Following Urker’s death on Thursday, Blanchard publicly suggested that he may have overdosed and said he had been “relentlessly cyberbullied” before his passing.

But in an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail on Friday, Urker’s sister Autumn criticized Blanchard, accusing her of focusing on her public image and the media instead of supporting the grieving family.

“We are disgusted with her statements! She hasn’t even called my mother or any of us yet,” Autumn said.

Urker first contacted Blanchard in 2017 after watching an HBO documentary about her crime, later writing to her in prison.

Urker proposed to Blanchard in 2018 while she remained behind bars, but they ended their relationship several months later. After Blanchard was released on early parole in December 2023, the pair reunited in 2024.

They welcomed their daughter, Aurora Raina, in December 2024, before officially separating again earlier this year.

Their relationship attracted intense scrutiny online, which Autumn said had a damaging effect on her brother.

She alleged that Blanchard was “to blame for his death because all of this started because of her.”

“She had to be in the limelight. She had to be that girl. She didn’t care what it cost other people around her,” Autumn said. “She loved all the attention at the expense of everybody around her.”

“As much hate as she received, she would receive about two times more support and happy comments telling her to keep doing her and ignore the haters,” Autumn alleged. “Except ignoring the haters caused everybody around her to receive death threats and feel uncomfortable.”

Autumn also claimed that Urker told her during their final phone call that he was “terrified” Blanchard would not keep their daughter Aurora, now 21 months old, “safe.” She said he also alleged that Blanchard had “humiliated him.”

According to Autumn, Urker hoped to bring his daughter “back home” to his mother and felt that he had “failed Aurora because of Gypsy.”

Autumn further alleged that Blanchard insisted on having things her way and would scream at Urker when he tried to control her, comparing the behavior to her mother. “Gypsy is not this sweet person,” she said.

By contrast, Autumn described her brother as a “great man” who would love and support people regardless of their struggles. She said he had tried especially hard for Blanchard because that was the kind of person he was.

“My brother was a good father. A good brother. A good son and a good friend. And we were all lucky and blessed to have known him,” she said.

The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Blanchard but has yet to hear back.  

Her remarks come after police revealed earlier on Friday that Urker was found dead with syringes, a spoon, a handgun and a ‘brown powdery substance’ nearby.

According to an incident report obtained by The Daily Mail, police discovered him on Thursday ‘cold to the touch,’ lying on his back in bed with ‘what appeared to be’ a blood-splotched paper towel on his left arm.

The handgun was sitting in its holster on Urker’s bedside table beside one syringe and two shot glasses, the document clarified.

Blanchard’s sister-in-law Anita went to church this past Wednesday with Urker. She later informed police that he ‘made comments of being depressed and upset.’

Anita and her husband arrived at Urker’s residence the following day, and called police for a welfare check when Urker failed to open the door. 

Police responded to Anita’s call at Urker’s residence, which is located in the town of Raceland on Bayou Lafourche, about an hour’s drive from New Orleans. They discovered his body on a bed inside. 

Urker’s arms and face were blue when he was found in bed, where he had evidently been ‘for extended period of time,’ according to the incident report. 

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Nothing in the bedroom ‘appeared to be disturbed or moved’ other than the items on the nightstand – the holstered gun, the shot glasses and another syringe.

Anita noted that Urker had gone live on TikTok at around 11pm Wednesday but ‘just had the video going while he was driving without him saying anything.’ 

Thursday evening, as news circulated of his death, Blanchard went public with her suspicion that he had succumbed to an overdose.

‘I don’t know if it was intentional or not. He was not in a good state of mind lately,’ she told People. ‘I’m in disbelief. I can’t think. I’ve screamed until my throat burns.’

In a statement provided Thursday to TMZ, Blanchard said she texted her ex on the day of his death to wish him a happy birthday but never received a reply. 

‘Ken was an amazing father and a man who was deeply loved,’ she began, adding that Urker would ‘forever be my soulmate and my red string, a connection that time, distance, and even death can never erase.’ 

Blanchard said that he went through an ‘unimaginable level of public scrutiny’ while being with her and that the ‘cruelty directed toward him was something no human being should have to endure.’

She noted that the online harassment had a ‘profound impact’ on Urker.

Regarding their daughter, Blanchard vowed to ‘make sure she grows up knowing how deeply her father loved her.’

Blanchard said that she would also ensure her daughter knew ‘who [Urker] was beyond what strangers on the internet chose to say about him.’ 

Blanchard became a household name back in 2015 after she was arrested over her involvement in her mother Dee Dee’s death. 

Blanchard has been a victim of Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy, with Dee Dee forcing her to pose as an invalid by remaining in a wheelchair at all times in public.

Dee Dee shaved Blanchard’s head and kept her drugged to convince the world that her daughter had muscular dystrophy and was battling leukemia.

But the warped relationship  between mother and daughter came to an end when Blanchard’s boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, crept into their home in Springfield, Missouri, and stabbed Dee Dee to death on June 10, 2015. 

Blanchard pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and spent nearly 10 years in prison before being released in December 2023 after being granted an early parole. 

While in prison, she bonded with Urker after he sent her a letter, and they started corresponding. 

Things soon turned romantic, and he went on to propose in 2018.

But after the Hulu miniseries The Act, which starred Joey King as Gypsy and Patricia Arquette as her mother, premiered a few months later and put an intense spotlight on Gypsy’s story, she admitted in her memoir that Ken couldn’t handle the sudden wave of attention. 

Blanchard subsequently met and married another man, Ryan Anderson. They broke up after a short union and she reunited with Urker.  

Following their reunion, Urker looked back on how they reconnected while speaking to People.

‘The very first weekend of April [2024] is when I came to visit her for the first time after she had gotten out. We spent that weekend together and had an incredible time,’ he said.

Their renewed connection was strong enough that they made plans to meet again a month later to attend a jazz festival together.

‘Then shortly after that, we realized we were going to have a baby,’ Urker added.